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Man are they going to be embarrassed when they notice they spelled ‘video’ incorrectly. How did that get through QC?

1) Flash wasn’t open, which made it problematic as a “core” content type on the internet (Apple not shipping support for it was just this point in practice) Read more

A whole lot of deserved name calling, of course - but a whole lot of substance you simply won’t engage with because you’re not emotionally mature enough to grapple with the specifics on its own merits: the seperation policy was put into place a year before it was announced. So a lot of parents had their kids taken… Read more

First off, you’re an absolute shithead. Read more

did Trump change anyone’s life in a meaningful way Read more

There’s nothing exhausting about it. It’s easy to not own stock directly, so it’s a perfectly reasonable guideline. People don’t control the contents of an index fund. What’s in it is not up to them. If you’re looking for a loophole like - “just own an index fund that’s all car stock!” .. well guess what, that’s why… Read more

OOOH YOU FOUND THE LOOP HOLE Read more

It’s far too tempting to be infleunced by a financial stake you have in the performance of a company to cover it in a way that you’re attempting to achieve absolute objectivism in (or at least uninfulenced subjectivism.) Read more

The world has suffered long enough with a good crack at a C-SPAN game.

There’s not much to this other than a tone of, “Circle the wagons, they said something mean about videogames!”

We’re sorry, we did not know Xbox was your friend.

Just imagine the amount of consumer goodwill they would’ve cultivated had they called the Xbone the Xbox 720, gamers would’ve just fucking loved that name, and it’s a number higher than the last number, so parents everywhere wouldn’t have been all that confused. Dads are used to that with their BWMs and Audis and moms… Read more

laws against murder haven’t eradicated murder entirely, but to the apparent surprise of many, the legal consequence of murder does prevent some people from committing it

that’s what due process is for. i don’t know what the process is here (keeping in mind the process is typically a function of how serious the consequences of breaking a rule is and how much is at stake in the people involved in a dispute or infraction) but it’s independent of what rules are established

“Fuck those people” isn’t a rule. That’s why you make rules. So you have an objective set of guidelines to know who to fuck. Or not fuck, as the case may be. And you don’t know who “those people” are until you make the rules. Depending on what the rules are, there are your people to fuck (or again, not to fuck,… Read more

The Ranch was dire. This looks .... also dire.

Aside from the actual physical logistics that might be impacted by this being so close to the inauguration day as others have addressed: Read more

I work in AAA at one of the big(gest) studios as a programmer and I do very little overtime (basically none for the past few years.) Some studios are better than others and some teams are better at shielding themselves from scope than others. There’s a lot of blanket statements that go around about overtime in game… Read more

not that it doesn’t feel nice to exchange experiences and situations with people in an online forum, but headlines without qualifiers are not meant to be taken as a statement of universal absolute truth. if anything, there’s an incentive not to add (unnecessary) qualifiers because it means article engagement goes up… Read more

Boy, Trumpolytes have set the bar low. We really need voters to support a very small tax increase to fund an expedition for it as it is rumored to be somewhere in the Mariana Trench at the moment.